Saudi Professional League 2023/2024

[Docnaster]

I really miss the Saudi league and can't wait to watch the matches of the teams filled with star players. But it seems we have to be a little more patient because the Saudi League competition will start in about 2 weeks and we hope that the players will be fit when the competition starts again. I saw that elite Saudi league teams such as Al-Nassr, Al-Hilal, Al-Ahli and Al-Ittihad have started training simultaneously since yesterday and of course this is something they have to do considering the match is getting closer.

The players often have to do more intense training to maintain their performance and even though they have more time to relax than other leagues, they have to start preparing again for real battles. The competition for the title may be interesting but the prestige of each competing team to always target 3 points is something that should be prioritized. Apart from that, I also can't wait to place bets again on Saudi League matches.

Looking forward to seeing whether the Saudi League signs Lewandowski and Salah. It'll affect everything if they do. Imagine matches full with European superstars! However, I doubt Lewandowski's move. Given the speculations of a Brazilian successor, Barcelona may not keep him. On the other hand, Salah may stay with Liverpool. Salah fits Klopp's system, which maximizes performance.

The Saudi League's approach is smart. These famous players are meant to boost the league's profile. Football quality and worldwide attention are both important. I want to watch how this approach plays out and who makes the big move.

There's every possiblity of both players joining the Saudi Pro League any time soon and going by the recent reports about the future of the two European superstars, it seems like the Saudi Arabian League will be their next destination but that I don't think is going to happen this winter transfer window.
Mohammed Salah and Robert Lewandowski are two players that's got huge respect for their respective clubs and you don't expect players of their calibre to leave their current clubs I n the middle of the season. Mohammed Salah was strongly linked with a move to the Saudi league last summer and recently, Poland striker Robert Lewandowski has also been rumoured to be target of some of the clubs in the middle East nation but I expect them to leave in the summer not during the winter transfer window

[Pesona1]

The Saudi League's approach is smart. These famous players are meant to boost the league's profile. Football quality and worldwide attention are both important. I want to watch how this approach plays out and who makes the big move.

So far, Saudi Arabia is a very rich country and even many European football clubs owners come from that country, but in terms of football, Saudi Arabia has actually been far behind from the European continent and even from leagues such as China, Korea and even Japan before, that's why now it seems like the Arab football federation is starting to look for ways to revive their football, including by recruiting top world star players such as Ronaldo, Neymar and Benzema and I think the steps taken by the Arab football federation have received extraordinary support from the Saudi Arabian goverment so that Arab clubs there is no difficulty in recruiting these star players, if we pay attention currently Saudi Arabian clubs are starting to have many former European league players and I think slowly the Saudi Arabian league will become one of the favorite leagues for football fans like the English league, Spanish league and German league so far.

[Zlantann]

There's every possiblity of both players joining the Saudi Pro League any time soon and going by the recent reports about the future of the two European superstars, it seems like the Saudi Arabian League will be their next destination but that I don't think is going to happen this winter transfer window.
Mohammed Salah and Robert Lewandowski are two players that's got huge respect for their respective clubs and you don't expect players of their calibre to leave their current clubs I n the middle of the season. Mohammed Salah was strongly linked with a move to the Saudi league last summer and recently, Poland striker Robert Lewandowski has also been rumoured to be target of some of the clubs in the middle East nation but I expect them to leave in the summer not during the winter transfer window

Saudi Pro League’s director of football Michael Emenalo in an interview reiterated the interest of the league to attract Mohamed Salah. He stated that he knew that the Egyptian talisman is happy in Anfield but they would be willing to sign the striker if he showed any interest in coming to Saudi Arabia. Mo Salah is a player that will attract enough publicity to the league and these clubs will be willing to pay as much as £150 million ($192m) with other attractive benefits.

Last season an undisclosed club offered Robert Lewandowski a salary of up to €150 million per year last season but he declined the offer. Maybe he might reconsider his stance because Barcelona is not having a good time in the La Liga. The Polish striker has not scored as many goals as he did last season which could be an indication that his career might be coming to an end. The Saudi League will be a good place for him to retire after making a fortune from their huge wages. Just like other football stars, Robert will bring his wealth of experience to help improve the developing league.

[QueenVera]

Yes, I also really miss the Saudi League playing again, but what can we do, we have to be patient and wait, of course even though currently the Saudi League players are relaxing, it would be better if they prepared themselves with training and of course it will definitely produce stamina and good performance. Yes, the elite teams have to perform well because their competition when the Saudi League starts will definitely be tight, especially as Ittihad will of course start its first match after a long holiday and Ittihad will face Al-Ta'ee, even though Ittihad can be said to be superior to Al -ta'ee but of course we won't know because sometimes Al-ta'ee's performance might be better because of the long holiday. So indeed, having training like that will definitely make the team's abilities better and no longer stiff when the match starts.

It looks like Al-Hilal's match against Inter Miami in the Friendly match is also getting closer and of course you have to start practicing now.
Likewise with Al-Nassr who will face Shanghai Shenhua in the Friendlies match so they definitely also need to train from now on so I am amazed by the Saudi League team who are training.

Yes, of course in the next match there will definitely be a fierce match because of course all teams want to become champions this season. Yes, I also can't wait and want to see the match.

Based on the agenda of the Saudi Pro League striving to create visibility and awareness in the European space with the major goal of ensuring an expanded sports market, the clubs find themselves in a situation where there's less utilization of local players. These players have no doubt some certain level of effects to a club but the aims of these clubs won't allow for the players to be used. It'll only make sense that a policy be put in place for the use of local players in every team but I don't think that'll be enough to take them to where they visioned the league to get to.

 SPL wants to be broadcasted and be seen worldwide and this makes for the rapid purchase and push for European stars who'd cause focus to gradually be shifted to their league. If the local players are entertained, then there'd definitely be no room for this hot caked stars in Europe and in the long run, it won't give them the focus they want to get. All things in the SPL currently occurs as a planned activity, and they are all working towards a set goal. It's only a gradual process before the impacts are seen.

[yudi09]

I dont know why Asian and Africa cup dont play at the same time as the two main continental cups like Eurocup and America cup, is a complete non sense and also hurts so much the teams who have asian or african players, like Son for tottenham and Salah for Liverpool.

And here we have this pause, so shit.

The Asian Cup previously had a schedule for its implementation every July. But since 2011 when Japan won the Asian Cup, the Asian Cup is scheduled to take place in January for reasons of avoiding weather or avoiding summer waves that occur in the Middle East. The Asian Cup in January did not violate the FIFA rules because in the FIFA regulation said that the implementation of the Confederation event could be done not only in June, January could also[1].

Conditions like this do make the team strengthened by players from Asian and African countries loss.

[1]. startingeleven

[hahay]

Still quite warm news came from Al-Hilal and they finally introduced their new recruit from Marseille, namely Renan Lodi. A few days ago it was discussed that an agreement had been reached on his transfer and today he was introduced to the fan public. Renan Lodi is still quite young at 25 years and it seems like he wants to try new things outside Europe before returning again. His position is as a left back and it seems that Al-Hilal did the right thing by bringing him in because the defense line also needs to be strengthened so that they can be stronger against the opponent's attacks.

Renan Lodi's status is on loan and his contract will last until 2027 and Lyon will also receive a fee of 20 million euros from the results of this transfer. I think Marseille also made the right move with this loan because they also need fresh funds to strengthen the depth of their squad. However, both Al-Hilal and Marseille have benefited from the transfer of Renan Lodi and we hope that this can also have a big impact on Al-Hilal with the addition of this squad.

It seems like Renan Lodi only played half the season at Marseille because after all, Renan Lodi also just joined Marseille, apparently at the start of this season because yes, last season Renan Lodi played at Nottingham. By continuing to change clubs like that, of course, Renan Lodi will gain a lot of experience, but unfortunately, at his young age, Renan Lodi chose to play in the Saudi Pro League. I think that at such a young age it doesn't seem to provide a good chance for Renan Lodi future to be able to return to playing at a big club in Europe.

Because after all, Renan Lodi contract at Al Hilal is also quite long and yes, if during that period until 2027 Renan Lodi continues to play at Al Hilal then ya, I think his performance will not get much attention. Thus, I think there is no definite guarantee for Renan Lodi future to be able to return to playing in Europe.

[len01]

Of course, the players do not care about the difficulty of the Saudi Arabian league, but SPL is a league with a lot of competition. We will see this if we look at the teams' fight against each other. The main problem for football players is that they cannot adapt to the country. The situation in the country is very different for players who played in Europe and got used to it. For the players in the SPL, the Saudi management should provide some incentives to remain a center of attraction.

maybe this is the reason european players are hesitant to come and accept offers from every SPL team because adapting is not an easy thing but as a professional player, adapting to a particular country is only a small problem and in fact several other players feel as comfortable as Ronaldo at the moment and also other european players who are very comfortable and can make a good contribution to this SPL.
It seems like there is no need to overdo anything intensive as long as the SPL always gives confidence to all talented players in europe and Saudi Arabia, the SPL will be the biggest part and in the future we will continue to see european players coming to the SPL and they will have careers and compete here.

[kawetsriyanto]

Many Saudi teams are still interested in hiring superstar players and they are going to send offers for more players during this summer, for example, I was expecting to see more players like Lewandoski and Salah finally accept the offer from these teams and play in the Saudi League, however, there's the chance for these players to had poor performance just like Karim Benzema had so far.

I think only some Saudi teams who can make offer to European superstar players. They must choose the popular Saudi teams, they probably have no intention to join average Saudi teams. It is very possible to see other European superstar players, but I think they will consider to move to Saudi league after the season ends.

Regarding Lewandowski and Salah, these players still can play well in their current clubs. I think they won't move to Saudi league in the near future. It is very doubtful if they will consider to move to Saudi teams in this summer. I guess they will try to play in Europe for 2-3 seasons more. Sure, they may get difficulty to play with their best form like Benzema. But as long as they got full supports, they probably will perform with their best.

[rahmad2nd]

Still quite warm news came from Al-Hilal and they finally introduced their new recruit from Marseille, namely Renan Lodi. A few days ago it was discussed that an agreement had been reached on his transfer and today he was introduced to the fan public. Renan Lodi is still quite young at 25 years and it seems like he wants to try new things outside Europe before returning again. His position is as a left back and it seems that Al-Hilal did the right thing by bringing him in because the defense line also needs to be strengthened so that they can be stronger against the opponent's attacks.

Renan Lodi's status is on loan and his contract will last until 2027 and Lyon will also receive a fee of 20 million euros from the results of this transfer. I think Marseille also made the right move with this loan because they also need fresh funds to strengthen the depth of their squad. However, both Al-Hilal and Marseille have benefited from the transfer of Renan Lodi and we hope that this can also have a big impact on Al-Hilal with the addition of this squad.

This means that Al Hilal is serious about maintaining consistency so far, the club even made the decision to drop Nyemar this season and bring in Renan Lodi in order to maximize the foreign player slots they can bring in. I don't know what made Renan interested and motivated to play with Al Hilal, but it seems like the salary issue could attract this 25-year-old player. even though he is only 25, he can be said to be an experienced defender. apart from being with Atletico Madrid, he also played in the Premier League and then headed to Marseille. Referring to his performance statistics, Renan Lodi is quite good and can be relied on. Plus, he can play in two different positions besides his specialist left back. theoretically, if the decision of the club or coach Jorge Jesus is not wrong.

We agree, Renan Lodi was brought in from Marseille to make Al Hilal's defense more solid. Plus, Jurge Jesus has other options that he can probably rotate and rely on. This competition still has enough time before it is held, Renan Lodi can adapt first and get used to the conditions and climate in Saudi Arabia. plus, he has ample time to bond with his new teammates. Fortunately, there are many top European players in the Al Hilal team squad. so, he will not be too hampered by language problems. Well, what is certain is that Al Hilal supporters hope that the Al Hilal team squad will become more competitive and continue with its positive trend. Thus, Al Hilal can win this competition trophy smoothly. but there are no definite guarantees about all of that, so let's just follow it and enjoy this competition and the competition for the trophy.

[Belarge]

Everyone here must feel the same way as you. Because the SPL league holiday of more than 1 month really feels very long. So we all definitely want the SPL to start again soon. Because it's a bit boring without seeing C.Ronaldo and other European star players not competing in the SPL for 1 month. And I am increasingly curious about Al-hilal and Al-Nassr who have a friendly match against Inter Miami. I want to see the match immediately and see Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo face each other again on the field.

I hope that after this 1 month break everything will change and Al-Nassr will get stronger and can beat Al-hilal.

Cristiano Ronaldo is the face I want to see everyday playing SPL and it's because of him that I've move closer to watching g SPL football and his presence have creates a strong connection with European players and Saudi Arabia. Everything will changed after the holiday. We have clubs that have picked form and we have the ones that would start to struggle to win matches. The Saudi Arabia League is filled with unexpected actions and we have quite the best European players that are hunger to show their best performance.

[Weawant]

The Saudi League's approach is smart. These famous players are meant to boost the league's profile. Football quality and worldwide attention are both important. I want to watch how this approach plays out and who makes the big move.

The Saudi guys have got a really good marketing strategy and approach as to how they are going to promote their leagues ad get the desired attention because that's what they need if they must make good money from their League, more attention will means more ticket and jersey purchasing power and even investors.

Getting these big European players looks like a strategy to getting attention because these players have made big name in football enough that wherever they are they, they always get good attention from which money can be made, and in order to get these European stars they have to make offers bigger than what is applicable in the European leagues and that way these players without a second taught will join them after getting higher pay is one of the reasons they want to play football.

[TelolettOm]

The Saudi guys have got a really good marketing strategy and approach as to how they are going to promote their leagues ad get the desired attention because that's what they need if they must make good money from their League, more attention will means more ticket and jersey purchasing power and even investors.

Getting these big European players looks like a strategy to getting attention because these players have made big name in football enough that wherever they are they, they always get good attention from which money can be made, and in order to get these European stars they have to make offers bigger than what is applicable in the European leagues and that way these players without a second taught will join them after getting higher pay is one of the reasons they want to play football.

Indeed. Saudi teams have contributed a lot to help the promotion of Saudi league. They spend huge money to attract players to come to Saudi league. It also surely makes people around the world to watch Saudi league because of many top players there. It is not easy to have a big promotion like this, it requires a lot of funds.

Having many top European players is an effective strategy. Although many of the players are no longer in their prime ages, but their presence makes Saudi league more interesting. The fans of the players will continue to follow where they play. Since the players like Ronaldo, Mane, Neymar, and other top players have many fans, it is not surprising if we see a significant improvement of people to watch SPL.

[iBaba]

The Saudi guys have got a really good marketing strategy and approach as to how they are going to promote their leagues ad get the desired attention because that's what they need if they must make good money from their League, more attention will means more ticket and jersey purchasing power and even investors.

Getting these big European players looks like a strategy to getting attention because these players have made big name in football enough that wherever they are they, they always get good attention from which money can be made, and in order to get these European stars they have to make offers bigger than what is applicable in the European leagues and that way these players without a second taught will join them after getting higher pay is one of the reasons they want to play football.

The Saudis have always done things in the big way in the past and present. anything they involve in and put in their best to produce the most colorful events hosted by them. But they are also the oil magnates so they have all it takes in terms of deposited resources to make heaven out of earth.

The moment I realized their interest in the football, I knew they will bring in luxury into football and can make top players retire back to their leagues. The SPL has gain momentum now and bigger than other leagues like the MLS leagues. If the SPL continues to go like this they will eventually take many star players back to their league but I know that's not just enough as they need to always work hard and put in more efforts in terms of spending on the marketing and being patient with the growth process.

[OcTradism]

The Saudis have always done things in the big way in the past and present. anything they involve in and put in their best to produce the most colorful events hosted by them. But they are also the oil magnates so they have all it takes in terms of deposited resources to make heaven out of earth.

They have big budget to grow up their league but they have more than that. They actually have more solid strategies to build up their Saudi Professional League, started with big four in the league through investment from PIF. They actually aim at biggest star players like Cristiano, Benzema, Neymar, even Messi, and they successfully attracted more star players to join like Mane, Brozovic, Laporte, Bounou.

With those players and with their solid strategies, I believe Saudi Professional League will gain big success and actually improve quality of the league and domestic players then their national team in future. We will see it like next 5 to 10 years and I believe this project from Saudi Arabia will not terminate too soon.

The moment I realized their interest in the football, I knew they will bring in luxury into football and can make top players retire back to their leagues. The SPL has gain momentum now and bigger than other leagues like the MLS leagues. If the SPL continues to go like this they will eventually take many star players back to their league but I know that's not just enough as they need to always work hard and put in more efforts in terms of spending on the marketing and being patient with the growth process.

MLS has a big disadvantage as it is too far from Europe and players from Europe will have to leave their home land and families, play and live at a nation very far from their families. Even it has advantage with religion, language, Saudi Professional League actually can provide better salary offers to European players. Their tax policy is more friendly for foreigners than MLS.

[Gallar]

The Saudi League's approach is smart. These famous players are meant to boost the league's profile. Football quality and worldwide attention are both important. I want to watch how this approach plays out and who makes the big move.

So far, Saudi Arabia is a very rich country and even many European football clubs owners come from that country, but in terms of football, Saudi Arabia has actually been far behind from the European continent and even from leagues such as China, Korea and even Japan before, that's why now it seems like the Arab football federation is starting to look for ways to revive their football, including by recruiting top world star players such as Ronaldo, Neymar and Benzema and I think the steps taken by the Arab football federation have received extraordinary support from the Saudi Arabian goverment so that Arab clubs there is no difficulty in recruiting these star players, if we pay attention currently Saudi Arabian clubs are starting to have many former European league players and I think slowly the Saudi Arabian league will become one of the favorite leagues for football fans like the English league, Spanish league and German league so far.

Yes, I agree too. The planning planned by the federation and clubs in Saudi Arabia is very precise. Because by recruiting world players, the name of the federation and clubs in Saudi Arabia will become increasingly known to world football fans. Even though it costs a lot of money to do all this, it has been proven that using this strategy has a very good impact.

Because in my personal opinion, the steps taken by the Saudi Arabian federation and clubs at this time can be said to be fast enough to make Saudi Arabian football proud. Because if you only relied on local players there, perhaps the name SPL would not be as famous as it is now. Although in the Asian zone, the Saudi Arabian League can be said to have a pretty good record. However, this is not enough to catapult SPL's name on the world stage.

And the football federation in Saudi Arabia, I think is aware of that. So they use the resources they have (a lot of money) to break this. Because as we know, Saudi Arabia is a very rich country. Even the great prince of Saudi Arabia is the owner of Newcastle City. So in that way, I think the world of football in Saudi Arabia will continue to develop rapidly. Because the support from the government is very good. and the football fans there also seemed very enthusiastic.

[Belarge]

Indeed. Saudi teams have contributed a lot to help the promotion of Saudi league. They spend huge money to attract players to come to Saudi league. It also surely makes people around the world to watch Saudi league because of many top players there. It is not easy to have a big promotion like this, it requires a lot of funds.

Having many top European players is an effective strategy. Although many of the players are no longer in their prime ages, but their presence makes Saudi league more interesting. The fans of the players will continue to follow where they play. Since the players like Ronaldo, Mane, Neymar, and other top players have many fans, it is not surprising if we see a significant improvement of people to watch SPL.

In decades, none of us have a clue regarding the SPL clubs but today, we can boldly mention few elite teams in actions and the players who have been outstanding. The promotion of the league have upgraded in all levels, atleast no longer comparable as of the previous season. Saudi Arabia influential men understands the purpose of promoting their league to be comparable to European football but it will take long time. The board knows what they want and they strive in bringing Cristiano Ronaldo to their league where he's presence becomes top and essential for everyone.

[el kaka22]

We are talking about arguably the two best players in the history of football, driving each other to mental levels. I mean you can call out each other if you are not the fan of the other, but the people with objective eyes can tell you that it doesn't matter if Ronaldo is better or Messi is better, it is not the point, the point is that, no matter which one is number one, those two are the top two in the history of this sport and played relatively during the same period as well, and for along time even in the same league as well.

So, it is clear that we are talking about watching Gods of football, basically playing at their retirement clubs for one last time, no matter how long, I do not think that they will change clubs after this, it is going to be just retirement for them.

[NotATether]

So, with the exodus of players from the Saudi league, I wonder how long this thread will stay open before there is no one left to talk about.

[klidex]

The Saudi League's approach is smart. These famous players are meant to boost the league's profile. Football quality and worldwide attention are both important. I want to watch how this approach plays out and who makes the big move.

The Saudi guys have got a really good marketing strategy and approach as to how they are going to promote their leagues ad get the desired attention because that's what they need if they must make good money from their League, more attention will means more ticket and jersey purchasing power and even investors.

Getting these big European players looks like a strategy to getting attention because these players have made big name in football enough that wherever they are they, they always get good attention from which money can be made, and in order to get these European stars they have to make offers bigger than what is applicable in the European leagues and that way these players without a second taught will join them after getting higher pay is one of the reasons they want to play football.

Of course, the Saudi league has large finances so they can market their league in various ways at their disposal, such as buying many star players from Europe. This will of course attract a lot of football interest who not only watch star players play in the European league but also watch them play. playing in the Saudi league which is parallel to the European leagues that exist throughout the world so that the Saudi league will bring in many investors who will make their league grow and progress significantly.

This is indeed a marketing strategy which is the main reason why the Saudi League recruits big European players because they want a competitive league like the European League with big European players, it can make the name of the Saudi League bigger and because the Saudi League offers are quite high, it makes players European players are interested in coming here and continuing their careers with fantastic salaries.

[len01]

In decades, none of us have a clue regarding the SPL clubs but today, we can boldly mention few elite teams in actions and the players who have been outstanding. The promotion of the league have upgraded in all levels, atleast no longer comparable as of the previous season. Saudi Arabia influential men understands the purpose of promoting their league to be comparable to European football but it will take long time. The board knows what they want and they strive in bringing Cristiano Ronaldo to their league where he's presence becomes top and essential for everyone.

the effort to bring Ronaldo to the SPL has the aim of increasing the popularity of the SPL so that it is known throughout the world, even though it is not very well known at the moment, but at least since Ronaldo arrived in the SPL, many european players have joined several teams in the SPL, as I said before, when Neymar said it all started from Ronaldo and finally many European players accepted big offers and started careers in the SPL with the belief that in the long term the SPL would become part of the big leagues on a par with Europe.
the SPL will continue to carry out promotions and all means to improve the quality of players in all teams to be able to give confidence to FIFA and make an offer to be part of the UCL someday as long as they can consistently maintain the quality of the matches I'm sure the SPL will be great.

previously, I never thought that I would be able to come and always be present to see the development of several teams in this SPL and it was all because of Ronaldo and as the season progressed I became aware that more and more people knew about this league and it certainly wouldn't be long before the SPL would become a very big league.